Josef Yurinov

Josef Yurinov was a Russian Mafia boss based out of Pyongyang, North Korea. He was formerly a lieutenant under crime boss Sergei Voronov, but he seized power in 2007 after having Voronov killed for betraying him.

Biography
Josef Yurinov was a KGB intelligence officer before the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, upon which he became a Russian Mafia member. He rose to become one of crime boss Sergei Voronov's lieutenants, and he was, in many ways, the true leader of his organization. The drug-addicted and young Voronov left most of the business affairs of the Mafia to Yurinov, who took part in business deals in Kosovo and North Korea (mostly arms smuggling). In 2007, during the Song Initiative, Yurinov met with his old associate Mattias Nilsson and hired him to do several jobs for the Mafia, and they later survived an ambush set by Voronov, who betrayed them in favor of North Korea. Yurinov and Nilsson succeeded in killing the North Korean assailants before Nilsson tracked down and killed Voronov, allowing for Yurinov to become the new boss.